One Man's Notes

Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.

I'm pretty much a Mac man and it's pretty much because they're pretty machines.

I'm actually quite serious about this - I find the aesthetics of the Mac OS and the machine design to be more conducive to productivity than the aesthetics of the Windows environment. Of course, this being an aesthetic judgement, it only holds true for the value of me.

Linux? Waaaay too techie for me.

What's your dream career? 
Submitted by Something.

Oh, probably as a multi-media reporter given the freedom to travel, and cover stories with words, pictures and movies as I saw fit. And the freedom to go out and find those stories for myself.

What I'm doing right noiw comes a pretty close second…

What's your favorite radio station, past or present?

Rather sadly, I'm pretty much a Radio 4 man these days, althought I have had period swhere Radio 1, Capital Radio and Jazz FM were my favourite stations.

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

Uh, well, Adam is my first name, so…

Actually, I was just delighted that I was "in" a new service early enough that I was actually able to bag my first name. I'm chuffed about that in a pretty immature way.

Do you believe in ghosts?  Have you ever seen a ghost? 
Submitted by Nancy.

In the sense of "restless spirits of the dead still walking the world", well, no. I do think there are phenomena which are at the root of the ghosts legends we have which remain to be explained by science, but given enough time, they will be.

I was walking through Trafalgar Square earlier when this happened. Wasn't Ken meant to be getting rid of them?

When pigeons attack

So, I've been testing a new phone with digital camera for work purposes. Here's some pictures of the merry Business Development gang:

And here's a rather nice one of the QH Starbucks:

QH Starbucks

And, lastly, here's some less successful ones of a presentation yesterday. I need to do some more testing of the camera's utility in dimly-lit places.

In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?

I just love the ability to pluck media into Vox from other sources: movies, pics and the like. I love rich media websites and Vox makes it so easy to bring your blog to life.

(Although, it would be quite nice if it worked with your YouTube account like it does with your Flickr account...)

How many computers do you have in your house? 
Submitted by Foomper.

Usually, just two: the iMac and the iBook. Currently we have an old Performa 6400 kicking around which I'm gonna flog or trash.

Right now, though, I'm at Mum's, and we have 5 computers in the house: Mum's iMac, my iBook, my work PC laptop, Jo's work PC laptop and Mark's iBook.